While the one-off Test match between Bangladesh and India may have ended a damp squib after rain dominated proceedings in Fatullah, there was still enough time for play to titillate cricket statisticians.
Looking back at the facts, figures and noteworthy moments, we trawl through the stats that mattered during the Test.
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** It was the first time Bangladesh has hosted a Test match in the month of June. July, August and September are now the only months a Test is yet to be played on Bangladeshi soil.
** The Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium at Fatullah, located just outside Dhaka city centre, played host to only its second Test match this week. The only other occasion was against Australia in April 2006, where the visitors were victorious by 3 wickets.
** This Test was the 50th to be played in Bangladesh. The first of which took place in March 1999, when Dhaka was the neutral venue for the Asian Test Cricket Championships finals between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. It should be noted that Dhaka (then Dacca) entertained seven Tests from 1955 to 1969 when it was a part of erstwhile East Pakistan. England has the distinction of hosting the most number of Tests – 494 from 1880 to 2015, while the UAE – not yet a full ICC member – has hosted the fewest with just 22.
** The last time India played a series comprising of a single Test match was in November 2000, which also served as Bangladesh’s inaugural Test match.
** The Fatullah Test was India’s 244th away from home. By utter coincidence, India has also played the same number of Tests at home.
#howzstat – @harbhajan_singh has overtaken @wasimakramlive as the 9th leading wicket taker in Test cricket #BanvInd pic.twitter.com/RnL5eGDlPr
— ICC (@ICC) June 15, 2015
** India were remarkably playing their first Test match in the subcontinent in 1 year, 6 month and 23 days. They last played in the region in November 2013 at the Wankhede Stadium, which was Sachin Tendulkar’s farewell to Test cricket. During this period they have played 13 Tests matches – two in both South Africa & New Zealand, five in England and four in Australia, winning one (at Lord’s), losing seven and drawing five.
** The record opening partnership of 283 between Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay saw them become the sixth Indian opening pair to aggregate 1000+ runs in Tests. Teeing off together in 24 innings, they now have 1,205 runs all-told and are fifth on the list of India’s highest opening run-scorers after: Gambhir-Sehwag 4,412, Gavaskar-Chauhan 3,010, Gavaskar-Gaekwad 1,722 and Gavaskar-Srikkanth 1,469.
** Shikhar Dhawan, unbeaten on 150, became the ninth Indian batsman to make 150 or more runs on the first day of a Test match. Virender Sehwag has done it on four occasions, while the remaining eight have done it just once.
** Shikhar Dhawan’s eventual 173 is now the 2nd highest score by an Indian against Bangladesh, behind Sachin Tendulkar’s 248* at Dhaka in 2004.
** Dhawan and Vijay became the first Indian opening pair to register individual 100s in the same innings on two separate occasions. Six other Indian pairs have also done it – but only the once.
Last year in June India played a 3 match ODI series in Bangladesh. Out of possible 300 overs, only 152.2 overs bowled coz of rain #IndvsBan
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) June 13, 2015
** Dhawan and Vijay became only the fifth opening pair in Test cricket history to register opening stands of 250 or more on more than one occasion. West Indian pair Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes and South Africans Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs have done it three times, while the English pair of Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe, the Sri Lankan pair Marvan Atapattu and Sanath Jayasuriya have done it twice each.
**It didn’t stop there, Dhawan (173) and Vijay (150) have registered 150+ scores in the same innings, while opening, for the second time in their career. The pair had also made 187 and 153 respectively against Australia at Mohali. The only other Indian openers to achieve this were Vinoo Mankad (231) and Pankaj Roy (173) against New Zealand at Chennai in 1956.
** And only two other opening pairs in Test cricket history have posted 150+ scores in the same innings on two separate occasions: Sri Lankans Marvan Atapattu and Sanath Jayasuriya and South Africans Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs.
** Playing in his 40th Test match, and 77th innings, Tamim Iqbal, when on 7 in the first innings, became Bangladesh’s highest run-maker in Tests. He went past the previous best of 3,020 runs by Habibul Bashar, who played 50 Tests and 99 innings from November 2000 to February 2008. Bashar held this record from November 2001 when he surpassed the 362 run benchmark set by Aminul Islam.
** Imrul Kayes’ 72 is now the second highest by a Bangladeshi opener against India, behind Tamim Iqbal’s 151 at Mirpur in January 2010.
.@sanjaymanjrekar analyses @Sah75official‘s brilliant bowling on Day 3 of the #INDvBAN Test: https://t.co/jZCcJpBzJM pic.twitter.com/PMhGI4F7aG
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) June 12, 2015
** Shakib Al Hasan, playing in his 28th Test match at home, became the first batsman to score more than 2,000 runs on home turf for Bangladesh. During the Test match he also became the first Bangladeshi to take over 100 Test wickets in his own country.
** Litton Das’ 44 is now the highest score by a Bangladeshi wicket-keeper on Test debut. The previous best of 32 was made by Khaled Mashud, also against India, at Dhaka in November 2000.
** Ravichandran Ashwin’s 5/87 is his best bowling performance in an away Test match, bettering his 4/105 earlier in the year against Australia at Sydney. He now has 10 five-wicket hauls in Tests, nine of which have come in India.
** Ashwin also reached 100 wickets in Test matches in the subcontinent in just 16 Test matches, equaling Pakistan legend Waqar Younis’ record. Waqar also needed 16 Tests to reach to his 100th wicket in the subcontinent.
** The head-to-head tally between India and Bangladesh now reads: India 6-0 Bangladesh, with 2 Tests drawn. The only other draw came at Chittagong in May 2007, when the third day’s play was washed out by rain.
** This is the second shortest ever Test match in terms of overs bowled to be played in Bangladesh with only 184.2 overs bowled over the five days. It is second to the Mirpur Test against New Zealand in October 2008 where 164.1 overs were completed after rain saw that no play was possible across each of the first three days.
